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http://trailstothepast.org
TRAILS TO THE PAST - All U.S. State/County Website
Welcome to Trails To The Past, where all administrators for state and county websites are volunteers that have a passion of genealogy and sharing. We dig into all types of records that may not always be readily available or that genealogists from all states will gain from their experience.
http://chat01.genealogy.com:4080/chat/world/html/index.html
GenForum Chat
GenForum Chat is probably the fastest and most reliable way to get real-time advice and help from other genealogists, whether they are working on your own lines or not. It is also occasionally
possible to find distant cousins who are researching the same lines you are investigating. There is a friendly group of regulars. If you don't see anyone in Chat Room 1 when you first check in, then try again at a different time.
http://www.scottishancestralways.co.uk/ancways_01_014.htm
War Memorials by Scottish Ancestral Ways
As we travelled around the country visiting many cities, towns and villages, it seemed a good idea to photograph the war memorials in detail. Currently the memorials are located in Fife, Scotland, however these will be added to as we go along and may be accessed free of charge. If you need a high resolution copy please email us and a free copy will be sent.
10 Tips for Finding Alternate Surname Spellings & Variations http://genealogy.about.com/od/name_changes/tp/spellings.htm?nl=1
Thinking 'out of the box' is often required when it comes to finding your ancestors in genealogical indexes and records. Many genealogists, both beginner and advanced, fail in the quest for their ancestors because they don't take the time to search for anything other than the obvious spelling variants. Don't let that happen to you! Get inspired when searching for alternative surname spellings with these ten tips.
http://genealogy.about.com/od/search_tips/tp/database_search.htm
How many of you have ancestors that you just can't find in a census, newspaper, or other online database when you just know they must be there? Before you assume they were just missed somehow, try these tips for locating stubborn ancestors in a variety of online databases.
http://genealogy.about.com/od/australia/a/australian-gold-rush-immigrants.htm?nl=1
Prior to Edward Hargraves' 1851 discovery of gold near Bathurst, New South Wales, Britain regarded the distant colony of Australia as little more than a penal settlement. The promise of gold, however, attracted thousands of "voluntary" settlers in search of their fortune, and ultimately ended Britain's practice of transporting convicts to the colonies.
Sites for Australian Genealogy
A quartz mine at Shotover, Thames, New Zealand which shows how the miners followed a gold-bearing reef as it plunged towards the centre of the earth. It required a considerable outlay to start a mine like this and the individual miners of the 1800s did not usually have the cash to develop the full potential of their claim. Often they banded together in groups of 4 - 20 men to pool their resources or formed a company to raise finance. Shares in the Gold Mining Companies were traded on the streets of Thames from 1868 onwards.
This webpage was composed and compiled by Kae Lewis in memory of her great great grandparents Edward Hooper and his wife Elizabeth Ann nee Bates. Like everyone whose name appears on this website, they also answered the call of the gold.
Edward Hooper arrived in Otago New Zealand in 1861 as an unmarried 20 year old miner in time for the opening of the goldfield at Gabriel's Gully. Later he returned to Australia where he married Elizabeth Ann Bates in South Australia in 1863. While Edward worked in the copper mines at Burra Burra, South Australia, Elizabeth gave birth to a son in 1864 and a daughter in 1866. Then gold was proclaimed in Thames New Zealand in August 1867. With two toddlers and another on the way, Edward and Elizabeth boarded a ship to New Zealand, landing on the shore at Tapu in the middle of winter, just in time for Elizabeth to give birth to another son in October 1868. Edward set to work immediately, taking out a Miner's Right at Tapu in July 1868 and another in August 1869. In April 1869, he bought a share in a mine named Count of Mont Cristo at Tapu with four other men. Elizabeth gave birth to another son, Herbert George Hooper (the great grandfather of Kae Lewis) at Tapu in August 1869. They now had four children under the age of 5, and against all odds on the goldfields in these days, kept everyone alive and thriving. By 1873, when their 5th child was born, the Hooper family had moved to Gisborne where Edward worked at the Makauri sawmill owned by William King. They lived in Gisborne for the rest of their lives and had 8 children altogether. Elizabeth died in Gisborne in 1894, Edward in 1899.
: https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Home/
Birth, Death and Marriage Historical Records
Search New Zealand Government records for births, deaths and marriages (BDM). Information available includes: * Births that occurred at least 100 years ago; * Stillbirths that occurred at least 50 years ago; * Marriages and eventually Civil Unions that occurred at least 80 years ago; * Deaths that occurred at least 50 years ago or the deceased's date of birth was at least 80 years ago.
From Kimberly Powell, your Guide to Genealogy
If you haven't checked out what FamilySearch is doing lately (and I mean in the last few weeks and months), then you're definitely missing out! Millions of new names are being added to the FREE FamilySearch Record Search site on a monthly basis, from countries all over the world - not just the US, UK, Canada and Australia, but also from countries such as France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Russia, Argentina, Brazil, Portugal, Peru, Jamaica, Mexico and even South Africa! These records (comprised of a mix of digital images and indexes) are all completely FREE to access - thanks to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, plus hundreds of thousands of volunteers from around the world who donate a little (or a lot!) of their time to help index the records at FamilySearch Indexing.
http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/cms/
Florence Nightingale Museum
The museum is a facility for research into the history& work of Florence Nightingale, particularly in relation to the first training school for nurses at St Thomas’ Hospital& consequential developments in the nursing profession. ~ Lambeth, London, England.
http://www.newhorizonsgenealogicalservices.com/ny-census.htm
Search Free New York Federal, State and Colonial Census Records Online
Search free New York Federal, State and Colonial Census Records online. Specializing in the New York State Census Records conducted 1825, 1835, 1845, 1855, 1865, 1875, 1892, 1905, 1915, 1925, and New York Colonial Census Records.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
Census of Ireland 1901 and 1911
The 1901 and 1911 census of all 32 counties in Ireland including digitized images of the original forms available free on the National Archives of Ireland website. The most valuable primary source online for Irish research.
http://hongkongcemetery.blogspot.com
Hong Kong Cemetery
Database of burials at the Hong Kong Cemetery.
July 19, 2010
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NZSG Releases Three New Zealand Research Publications
(Source: Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter via RSS Feed, 15/Jul/2010)
The publications are:
NZ Combined Electoral Rolls 1881, 1893, 1896
1881 Electoral Rolls contain over 120,000 records; 1893 contains over 300,000 records and 1896 contains over 330,000 records. By combining these rolls into one database researchers are able to see family connections, by electoral district with the addition of woman and children over the age of 21 from 1893; look at the geographical movement of family members, compare the choice of the women in your family as to whether the hype of the 1893 election (about the ability to vote in a general election) carried over to the 1896 election.
This also includes copies of the electoral maps of the times, published compliments of Alan McRobie, from his NZ Electoral Atlas.
This CD ROM is available for NZ$50.
A Return of Freeholders of NZ Oct 1882
This is a searchable PDF which gives the names, addresses and occupations of owners of land throughout New Zealand at that time. It includes the area and value in counties and the value in boroughs and town districts.
N.B. Maori land ownership is omitted in the original records.
Compiled by the NZ Property Tax Department from Assessment Rolls, these records were published by the Government in 1884.
This CD ROM is available for NZ$25
The Jim Pearce Index Obituaries reported in the Evening Post 1929-1977
This collection was assembled between 1927 and 1977 by librarians working for the Evening Post in Wellington New Zealand. Following the merger of the Evening Post and the Dominion newspapers in 2002 the collection was gifted to the Wellington City Libraries by Fairfax (NZ) Ltd. The Kilbirnie Branch of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc indexed this collection over a long period on a voluntary basis to produce this index. The Index is searchable by surname, given names or year and includes other people named in the obituary.
This CD ROM is available for NZ$25
Ancestry.com.au Adds Australia Birth, Marriage and Death Index
(Source: Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter via RSS Feed, 15/Jul/2010)
Do You Have Ancestors or Relatives Who Went to South Africa?
The Genealogical Society of South Africa promotes and facilitates interest and research in genealogy and family history in that country.Their website has a link to photographs of over 170,000 headstones.
The library section of their site has links to books and documents held in various repositories as well as images of a number of family bibles from the collection of the National Cultural History Museum The society is currently undertaking over 20 projects related to history and genealogy.
more information about the Society > http://gensa.info.www19.jnb2.host-h.net/
101 Best Genealogy Websites of 2010 - Family Tree Magazine
The leading family history magazine for researching Genealogy. Helping to discover, preserve, and celebrate family history. Get similar sites, reviews and more at Xmarks.com.
Discover the Hidden Power of Google for Genealogy & Family History Research. Learn how to use Google more effectively as a genealogy research tool.
With more than 20 billion pages included in Google's index of the Web, it's likely that some of these pages contain clues about your ancestors.
But finding these pages requires an understanding of filtering and other techniques to realize the full value of this free online service!
Simple Tips & Techniques Powerful Proven Results!
- Begin finding dozens of highly relevant results vs. millions of unrelated listings
- Learn to quickly read and interpret the information-packed search results pages
- Discover the usefulness of Google Books, News Archive, Language Tools & more...
- Save important queries so Google can search every night while you sleep!
"Dan Lynch has written an excellent new book called Google Your Family Tree. I have now had a chance to read it twice and must say that I am even more impressed with the second reading than I was with the first . . . I thought I was a Google expert, fully familiar with the search engine's operation. However, I learned a number of new tricks by reading Dan Lynch's book. I bet you will also. If you want to conduct more effective searches on Google, be it about genealogy or nearly any other topic, reading Google Your Family Tree will increase your expertise."
Dick Eastman, Editor, Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
The book is a 352-page soft cover and measures 8.25 inches wide by 10 inches tall. The pages are written in a friendly, informative, and non-technical way but still convey the depth of power contained within each major part of the Google service. Each concept is illustrated with large, easy-to-view images showing exactly how to execute the command being discussed and what results you will achieve. If you have ever used Google or any Internet search engine and experienced frustration with millions of listings resulting from your query, you are about to discover a true breakthrough!
Only a long-time genealogist and technology expert could have accomplished what author Dan Lynch did within this text. He dissects more than one hundred powerful commands and features of Google, but maintains a focus on how they can be used specifically to conduct family history research. Special tips for finding people, places, and even filters for searching through different time periods. This book has it all.
http://gensa.info.www19.jnb2.host-h.net/
Introducing: GSSA Google Earth™ Cemetery Initiative!
Explore over 2200 Cemetery locations in 11 countries using Free Google Earth software!
The GSSA Google Earth™ Cemetery Initiative also provides the link to actual cemetery and headstone photographs in the eGGSA library, where available.
Experienced users click here for the latest file to view the map of GSSA cemeteries on Google Earth™ (Updated 7-Jul-2010 with 2295 entries and 1041 links to GSSA Photo Albums)
Our Archives (U.S. National Archives Wiki for Researchers)
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http://www.ffhs.org.uk/
Family history societies work hard transcribing their local parish records and other records relating to their areas. Bedfordshire FHS has released their 1st batch of parish registers on CD; if you have ancestors in Lancashire or Huddersfield look at the websites of the Lancashire Parish Register Society and Huddersfield Family History Society who have also released more records. Remember societies are constantly updating their publications so always re-visit their websites to check for new releases. For a full list of member societies and links to their websites visit: more information > http://www.ffhs.org.uk/members2/contacting.php
http://www.ips.gov.uk/cps/rde/xchg/ips_live/hs.xsl/1090.htm
The digitisation of GRO's births, marriages and deaths records is moving forward and a new project, called the Digitisation and Indexing (D&I) Project, was initiated in 2009. The new project covers the digitisation of the records themselves together with indexing and upgrading the current online certificate ordering process.
Until such time as it is able to provide an online index, GRO will continue to make a full set of the GRO indexes freely available in microfiche format at several libraries and record offices across England and Wales. Further information on the host sites can be found on the Directgov website.
http://www.familyhistorysa.info/births-marriages-deaths/births.html
South Australian Births 1836-54
Early South Australian births including those prior to civil registration.
http://www.tracemyfamilytree.net
Trace My Family Tree
Site is dedicated to helping people get started doing genealogical research and to trace my family tree.
http://www.ach.familyhistorysa.info/constables.html
South Australian District Constables 1853-1920
District Constables were special constables appointed by SA District Councils to maintain the law and protect life and property in rural areas where there were insufficient officers of the Police Force. In 1861 an Act authorized District Constables in city districts. District Constables were not members of the Police Force.
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FINDMYPAST.CO.UK MAKES BIRTH RECORDS EVEN EASIER TO SEARCH www.findmypast.co.uk
100 million fully indexed birth records from 1837 – 2006
Leading UK family history website, findmypast.co.uk has today launched an easier way to find the births of English and Welsh ancestors online.
The company has reindexed over 100 million birth records, as a first instalment of a completely new version of the England and Wales Birth, Marriage and Death (BMD) records on its website. Fully indexing these records involved rescanning 170 years of records and transcribing the quarter of a billion names within them. Over 1,000 people have worked on this exciting two-year project.
The fully indexed births make finding ancestors much simpler as the revamped records will provide you with a number of new benefits;
* Your search results will be in the form of a list of individual names, so you won't have to check through pages of records to find your ancestors
* You can search the complete 1837-2006 set of birth records in one go or by one or more counties at a time
* The images of the index pages are completely new and very high quality
* We've added smart search features including name variants
* There are clever search results to get around the quirks of the records, including the GRO's procedure of initialising second names, and records of children unnamed at registration (very common in the Victorian period)
* You can now search by mother's and father's name at the same time to help find those elusive births
With this new resource now available, findmypast.co.uk has uncovered some interesting facts about the births that were registered between 1837 and 2006.
Debra Chatfield, Marketing Manager at findmypast.co.uk, said, “As the first company to publish birth, marriage and death records online, findmypast.co.uk is committed to making family history research more accessible. Findmypast’s brand new birth indexes now provide an easier route into our families’ pasts than ever before.
We are currently working on reindexing the marriage and death records and once complete, findmypast.co.uk will have digitised over a quarter of a billion records. Thanks to initiatives like this, family history is more popular than ever and the amount of historical records that are now available to search and view online will help even more people to startto uncover their own family tree.”
Findmypast.co.uk was the first company in the world to put the complete Birth, Marriage and Death indexes (BMDs) for England and Wales online on 1 April 2003. Previously these were only available offline on microfiche or in registry books, at a selected number of locations. This landmark achievement was recognised in 2007, when findmypast.co.uk won the Queen’s Award for Innovation.
For more information log on to www.findmypast.co.uk
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Links to Individual Collections
(Source: The Ancestry Insider via RSS Feed, 16/Jul/2010)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/research-logger/id379266906
Research Logger is a genealogy research notes app. Instead of keeping your genealogy research notes on paper you can keep them all on this app that also lets you do search and a todo list.
http://www.opengen.org
International OpenGen Alliance
An industry-wide group that is working to create a single standard for genealogy data interoperability.
How do I find my family history on the Internet?
Many resources exist for researching your family on the Internet, with more being added each day. But do keep in mind the need to verify, verify, verify.
(Source: Answers at Genealogy Today, 16/Jul/2010)
Transcription or Extract?
(Source: Genealogy Tip of the Day via RSS Feed, 16/Jul/2010)
Digitize Your Life ($) The ($) symbol after a title indicates that a subscription will be required to access the full text of the item
(Source: Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter via RSS Feed, 16/Jul/2010)
Tattoos and Sheep: Convict Records . . . Not Always The Criminals You Would Expect ($)
British convict records tell the stories of interesting people who were transported to the American and Australian colonies in the 1700s and 1800s. Along with hardened criminals were those who committed lesser crimes, sometimes nothing more than vagrancy. The forced immigration of convicts served not only to rid Britain of its criminal population, but served also to control the influx of those fleeing political upheaval in other lands. In her article, "Tattoos and Sheep: Convict Records . . . Not Always The Criminals You Would Expect," GenWeekly's newest writer, Bonnie Hardman provides insights and suggests resources for discovering the story behind the crime.
(Source: GenWeekly, 14/Jul/2010)
Reporting Ancestry.com Indexing Errors
(Source: The Ancestry Insider via RSS Feed, 14/Jul/2010)
JewishGen and MyHeritage.com Establish Collaboration
(Source: Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter via RSS Feed, 14/Jul/2010)
JewishGen & MyHeritage collaboration
(Source: DearMYRTLE's Genealogy Blog via RSS Feed, 14/Jul/2010)
http://www.familyrelatives.com/
Familyrelatives is proud to announce the addition of 2,000,000 New Navy Records spanning over 160 years.
The records of commissioned officers of the Royal Navy dating back 163 years have been published online for the first time by Familyrelatives.com Familyrelatives.com is pleased to release the most comprehensive online collection of Royal Navy Lists from 1847 to 1945. More than 2 million names are included in the Lists which date from the mid - 19th Century (or the Eleventh Period in Navy History) when Britain was involved in a number of conflicts.
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